Sh Tipu

“Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“One man can no more see into the mind of another than he can see inside a stone...”
― Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

“It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“My mom did what school didn't. She taught me how to think.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood